AIRBUS
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Airbus manufactured the European Service Module( ESM) which provides the Orion spacecraft’ s power, propulsion and life support. The ESM has 33 engines that provide thrust and propulsion to manoeuvre the Orion and four solar wings, each seven metres long, that generate 11.2kW of electricity.
More than 20,000 parts and components are used in each ESM including around 12 kilometres of cables. The cleanroom facilities at Airbus’ Bremen site in Germany have been adjusted to be able to deliver one ESM per year and accommodate three at one time.“ Together with the European Space Agency, Airbus is providing half the spacecraft that will return humans to the Moon – taking them further than ever before into space and of course returning them safely to Earth,” says Marc Steckling, Head of Earth Observation, Science and Space Exploration at Airbus.
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CREDIT: FRANK THOMAS AIRBUS
AIRBUS
FOUNDED: 1970
HEADQUARTERS: LEIDEN, NETHERLANDS
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 166,876
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